EuSpRIG 2026 Annual Conference: Spreadsheet Productivity and Risks
About this Event
This is the premier event for those concerned with productivity and risks in the use of spreadsheets.
For those unable to attend in person, we are offering full online access to all sessions via a live stream. The recording of the event will be made available to registered attendees after the conference.
Programme Thursday 9th of July
09:00 – 09:30 Arrival, Registration, Coffee and Welcome
09.30 – 10.00 KEYNOTE: Ian Pay, ICAEW, “Spreadsheet Competency Framework”
10:00 – 10.45 Jain Veet, ICAEW, “Automating Budget vs. Actual Variance Analysis in Excel: A Governed Approach to AI-Generated Financial Commentary
10:45 – 11:15 Peter Batholomew and Luke Phillips, Excel MVP, “Dynamic-array financial modelling for reverse mortgage / equity release models: consistency, auditability, and circularity management” (Working title)
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 John Yeldham and Dan Wilcockson, freelancer and Cellori, “The performance of LLMs at modularising financial models “
12:30 – 13:15 David Benaim, Excel MVP, “Inherent risk: AI vs Power Query for data transformation”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15.00 Tom Grossman, University of San Francisco, “An Evaluation of Claude Code for Business Analysis in Excel”
15.00 – 15:45 Simon Thorne, Cardiff Metropolitan University, “Large Language Models and Spreadsheets : Benchmarking Reasoning and Explainabiluty Performance Using FLARE
15:45 – 16:15 Tea break
16:15 – 17.00 Yoshihiro Sato, “Deviation in Spreadsheet Use in Japan: Structural Risks and the Misapplication of Generative AI”,
17.00 – 17:30 Panel discussion
17:30 Conference closes for the day. Food and drink for the evening will be found locally. Please come along and enjoy the post conference discussions. Details to be confirmed
Programme Friday 10th of July
09:00 – 09:30 Arrival & Coffee
09.30 – 10.00 KEYNOTE: Aayush Kumar, Microsoft Research “Human-AI collaboration in Copilot for Excel” (Working Title)
10.00 – 10:45 Angela Collins and Simon Thorne, DSW and Cardiff Metropolitan University, “A thematic analysis of EuSpRIG Horror Stories”
10:45 – 11:30 Yoshihiro Sato, “Structural Understanding of Spreadsheet Tools”
11:30 – 12.15 Tie Cheng, “Abstraction Layers in Spreadsheets for LLMs”
12.15 – 13.00 Grenville Croll, EuSpRIG, “25 years of EuSpRIG”
13:00 Conference closes
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 92.80 to GBP 428.65
